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Modest Mouse perfected an underground sound that melted angsty emo and light-hearted folk with experimental rock for something entirely their own. When the outfit – originally made up of frontman ...

Modest Mouse has released a new album, but does it hold up well against the band's best? Longtime fans might be disappointed.

Modest Mouse is almost fully back for the first time since 2021. That was the year of the band's most recent album release, The Golden Casket. In 2026, fans will get a new record titled An Eraser and ...

Like many of the most iconic Modest Mouse songs, a conversation with Isaac Brock is hilarious, gruff, loopy, and strangely profound. Beaming in over Zoom, his disheveled hair set against a backdrop of ...

On November 18, 1997, a trio of young punks from Issaquah, Washington named Modest Mouse released their second album, The Lonesome Crowded West. It was not an immediate sensation — by the time the ...

Countless indie darlings have made the jump from cred-laden buzz band to major label fixture. Just ask R.E.M., The Replacements, and Sonic Youth. A whole new generation of underground acts made the ...

The Flaming Lips and Modest Mouse will spend the end of their summer on the road together. The two bands will co-headline an upcoming North American tour with support from guest openers Friko and Dehd ...

As loosely defined as the genre remains, there’s something culturally vivifying about a legendary indie rock band going back ...

Known in the mainstream for their 2004 YOLO anthem, “Float On,” Modest Mouse has churned out six albums in the last 12 years whose only constants are frontman Isaac Brock’s anguished yowl, abundant ...